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By Selwyn Duke You might think that after unleashing the Wuhanvirus upon the world, China would strike a conciliatory tone. Instead, the nation’s official news service and government mouthpiece has not only asked everyone else for an apology, but has threatened to “ban exports to the United States” of medical products, which it said would…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s bad enough that Big Tech is swaying our elections and shifting votes, but it’s also shifting American jobs — to foreigners. There’s salt in this wound, too: The displaced American workers are sometimes forced to train their replacements. Worse still, this isn’t a new story, but was occurring under the Obama administration.…
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By Selwyn Duke The Democratic Party is now confronted with a dilemma. Its two possible presidential nominees are perhaps equally unpalatable, though for different reasons. Socialist Bernie Sanders is, the establishment believes from a practical standpoint, ideologically unfit; Joe Biden is a garrulous gaffe machine who is mentally unfit. Yet what if, contrary to popular…
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By Selwyn Duke If prominent journalists can’t do simple math, how can they do complex political science? Some may thus wonder after MSNBC host Brian Williams and New York Times editor Mara Gay claimed on live television that ex-presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million in ad buys equates to $1 million per American. In reality,…
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By Selwyn Duke Sixty years ago we had the film Where the Boys Are. Now some people aren’t sure what the boys are, and the latest example is a California bill that would punish large stores for maintaining separate boys’ and girls’ departments. Designated AB 2826, the legislation’s header reads “Introduced by Assembly Member Low,” which doesn’t…
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By Selwyn Duke Left for politically dead not long ago, ex-vice president Joe Biden has risen like a Phoenix to sweep 10 Super Tuesday states in the race for the Democratic nomination. Erstwhile frontrunner Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) went from the wind at his back to political heart attack, as late-deciding voters made the difference…
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By Selwyn Duke If you could transport yourself back to the Middle Ages and tell people that living things too small to see can cause disease, they’d think you were crazy. Seeing is believing and, quite often, not seeing is not believing. Tragically, this phenomenon is also operative with the virus in our political system…
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By Selwyn Duke Chris Matthews’ “real sin, of course, was being old and unfashionable,” remarked Fox News host Tucker Carlson yesterday. If Carlson had added “white” and “male,” his statement could have been complete — but unfashionable itself. MSNBC personality Matthews stunned all and sundry Monday evening when he announced on air (video below) his…
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By Selwyn Duke “In San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, it was routine to see men from China spit in the streets, blow their noses in their fingers and then wipe their hands on anything nearby, and generally violate American hygienic norms,” writes commentator Andrea Widburg. ”Outside the tourist zones, Chinatown’s restaurants and grocery stores also suggested resistance to…
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By Selwyn Duke Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has warned of a war between Islam and Christianity and called Europe a “sick man,” is currently making it a bit sicker: In accordance with a longstanding threat, he’s allowing Muslim migrants unimpeded access to the continent for 72 hours. Read the rest here.
